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Brakhage wrote the essays in Telling Time as an occasional column for Musicworks, a Toronto quarterly. He went beyond the relation of film to music in order to explore primary concerns beyond film, including Brakhage's aesthetic theories based on the phenomenology of human cognition. He is as brilliant discussing Gertrude Stein or romantic love as he is on child psychology, astronomy, and physiology, teasing out vital correspondences between t...

On the dangerous journey back to Nicaragua from their Honduran exile, Inspector Morales and his old revolutionary comrade Serafín witness the brutal murder of their guide. Agents of the secret police are on their tail, forcing them to take temporary sanctuary with leftist priests, loyal friends, and common Nicaraguans, all swept up in the deranged cynicism, graft, and violence of a dictatorship built on the lies of a long-since-abandoned ideal...

A continuously looping narrative in one hundred thirty-one texts divided midway by a solid red page, Headless World concerns the invention of Time in a universe where time does not exist outside of human experience, memory, and desire. This is a strangely attractive, disturbingly prophetic, and comically horrifying speculative fiction. It begs to be described in terms borrowed from fields other than literature. Visually impressionistic, psycho...

Years after his unceremonious firing from the National Police following an acto of heroic insubordination (recounted in The Sky Weeps for Me (2020), Inspector Dolores Morales--barely scraping by as a private eye--finds himself summoned before Miguel Soto, a powerful Nicaraguan oligarch whose step-daughter has gone missing. Morales is assigned the lucrative if daunting task of finding her, given that all he has are her name, two photographs, an...

These twenty-five brief tales--written by the poet and fabulist Robert Kelly, and illustrated with ink drawings by the artist Emma Polyakov--are filled with wonder and enchantment for all who are young at heart. There are suitably beguiling personages as well: spectral foxes, a telepathic ape and antelope, shadows that speak, an odd djinn, a feline conductor, an umbrella-loving serpent, protean elves, and many other visions of the ultimate rea...

Originally published in Spanish under the title: Las muertes paralelas.

A family saga of biblical proportions . . .When Abram's brother, Haran, is found dead in their father's field, Sarai, Lot, and Abram's fates become intertwined.As their family's desires clash, they must navigate increasingly dangerous circumstances.From forced marriage, to fleeing the wrath of an angry city-state, and deceiving the pharaoh of Egypt, will they honor the Almighty and find the inheritance God promised? Or will they choose their o...

The Cup is a lyrical narrative of two young Americans following an ancient pilgrimage route, their explorations interwoven with legends of the Holy Grail. A poem in 91 sections."--

The eleven essays and 117 literary reviews gathered in this book were written largely between 1932 and 1937, the most productive period of Mary Butts's foreshortened literary career: she died at 47. After spending most of the 'twenties on the Continent, she repatriated to London before settling with a new husband permanently in Sennen, a Cornish village close to Land's End. Famously impractical about money, she must have welcomed the editor Hu...

Experience the psalms like never before -- through heart-pounding fiction!Praetorian Prefect Sextus Burrus has spent his life fighting for the glory of Rome, but that glory has lost its shine. As both his health and his career crumble, he is drawn toward the seemingly inexhaustible peace of one of his Jewish prisoners, the Apostle Paul.The moment Timothy hears his mentor and surrogate father Paul has been arrested, he rushes to Rome. Under the...

In three stories and two novellas, Pamela Zoline's extraordinary fiction propels the reader from the thermodynamic entropy of a housewife's kitchen to a foreign traveler's exhausting derangement of the senses, and from a logical project to end the possibility of nuclear conflict to an encyclopedic cure for insomnia, all before encountering what must surely be the most catastrophically hilarious genealogy in modern fiction.

Experience the psalms like never before-through thought-provoking fiction. A man wakes up in the Valley of Death and realizes he's given up everything to attempt to kill Death so that he can bring his Love back to life-but when he fails, who will be there to rescue him?The Hunter and the Valley of Death is a profound meditation on life, death, loss, and love. Formatted as a fantasy parable on the topic of surrender, this story shows that there...

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